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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowThe Indiana Attorney General’s Office has filed charges against those suspected of participating in a $10.9 million Medicaid fraud scheme involving a Mooresville senior home care provider.
Felony fraud charges have been filed against six individuals for their activity at Senior Home Care Agency, an Indiana-registered corporation at 140 Meadow Lakes Drive in Mooresville. Among those charged is the acting owner, who is legally ineligible to operate a business, and who is accused of using hundreds of thousands of dollars of company funds for personal expenses.
Senior Home Care Agency provides waiver services within the Indiana Medicaid program, specifically attendant care, home and community assistance, and transportation services, according to court documents.
“Committing fraud and stealing from taxpayers is bad enough, but it is especially egregious when it’s committed against our most vulnerable citizens,” Attorney General Todd Rokita said in a press release on Wednesday. “Our office is committed to holding these bad actors accountable, and we’re not going to tolerate it in Indiana.”
According to arrest documents filed in Marion County earlier this week, the Indiana Department of Health received a complaint against Senior Home Care, alleging that Alexander Byrnes, 39, was acting as the business’s owner and operator even though he was not supposed to legally own or operate a personal services agency due to his criminal history.
To bypass the restriction, the complaint alleged, Byrnes used a separate person to serve as the nominee owner on paper to hide his identity from the Indiana Department of Health and the Family and Social Services Administration, even though that person had no known expertise in business or the medical profession, according to court documents.
By claiming another person as the business’s owner, Senior Home Care Agency was allowed to obtain a Personal Services Agency License from the Department of Health — which is required for the company to be enrolled as an Indiana Medicaid provider.
When asked for a response to the allegations, Byrnes’s attorney, Jennifer Lukemeyer of Indianapolis-based law firm Voyles Lukemeyer Baldwin Webb & Helmond, said, “No comment.”
According to arrest documents, an investigation by the Attorney General’s Office Medicaid Fraud Control Unit revealed Byrnes established a practice with Senior Home Care’s employees of billing for maximum authorized hours, even when no services were performed.
Citing data from the Family and Social Services Administration and the managed care entities that were contracted to administer portions of the Indiana Medicaid program, Medicaid Fraud Investigator John Mills said Senior Home Care Agency billed and was paid more than $10.9 million from Sept. 12, 2023, to Aug. 17, 2025.
Arrest documents also state that Byrnes, as the sole signatory, used Senior Home Care financial accounts to pay for personal expenses, including spending more than $180,000 on hotels, $42,000 on a Rolex watch and $329,000 on nightclubs.
The other charged individuals in the case:
- Faith Casas, 26, who is accused of aiding, inducing or causing an offense, 14 counts of Level 4 felony fraud, 35 counts of Level 5 felony fraud, and one count of Level 6 felony fraud
- Cortez Crook, 35, who is accused of three counts of Level 6 felony fraud
- Nichole Hoyt, 41, who is accused of 10 counts of Level 6 felony fraud
- LaShawn N. Wright, 40, who is accused 3 counts of Level 6 felony fraud
- Jessica Schoof, 45, who is accused of 10 counts of Level 6 felony fraud
Since 2021, the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, which receives a majority of its funding through a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grant, has obtained more than $100 million in funds lost to provider welfare fraud, according to the Attorney General’s Office.
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